These are the consequences of the Laliga measures

Last week, Laliga proudly announced a big blow against the hacking of football, with the deactivation of Duckvision, one of the largest Pirate IPTV platforms; But with the passage of the days, this decision shows to be one of the most controversial to which the organization was faced in its fight against illegal programs.

And it is that the affected seniors of these measures do not prove to be pirate users, but ironically, Users of legal services and who have nothing to do with football. In recent days, customers of Spanish operators such as Movistar, O2, Digi and more recently, Vodafone, complain of not having access to many websites and services; And we are not talking about pirates who can no longer see free games, but conventional internet users who suddenly have lost access to a good part of the Internet.

The use of the verb “deactivate” instead of “closing” Duckvision in the official announcement of Laliga has the key and tells us The controversial stage that the organization has crossed and that he can have serious consequences for the future of the Internet in Europe; And as is generally the case, this is not new, and we have already been informed of its time that it was going to happen.

What Laliga has done is not just to request the blockade of access to a web page or a service, as has been done so far; Instead, the new technique Block an entire range of Dynamically IP addressesAt times when a football match is held. The tool developed by Laliga is capable of automating tens of thousands of IP addresses, turning between each every few minutes to prevent hackers from simply changing management. And the reason why it affects users of legal services, is due to the way the modern Internet network works.

Traditionally, a website is housed on a server, a specialized computer accessible from the Internet; When the user introduces the address into his web browser, the server is served ”(hence the name). However, most modern pages and services no longer work, but Use the “Cloud” if called To offer access to content dynamically.

A “server cloud” is a set of servers that share resources and services, and that for practical purposes, works as a single device. In a cloud, a large number of web pages and services can be stored; When the user accesses the website or uses an application on his mobile, it connects to the cloud and this only serves the content of the service in question. It means that Thousands of pages share the same resources and have the same IP address.

Now it's easy to see where the problem is. With its blind blocking of IP addresses which house potentially illegal content, Laliga also blocks thousands of legal services with which they share the “cloud”. It's like Stop everyone living in a criminal's house, simply because they share the same address (even if your innocence has been demonstrated).

El Español Readers – Free Android can recognize this system as something very similar to what Italy has already implemented. The Shield Piracy shares a good number of the characteristics of this Laliga tool (always without name or official recognition), as the Necessary collaboration of operators and the blocking of legal services; In fact, in Italy, it was a big problem that the officials had to present an amendment which protects them against the possible legal consequences for censorship and the blocking of legal services. There are already votes that require the withdrawal of this system, to potentially violate European regulations.

Despite the recognition of this problem, Laliga not only washed your hands, but declares that The defect is cloudflareThe greatest cloud services in the world and it is the one that housed blocked services. Cloudflare is used by some of the greatest internet services, such as GitHub, and its blockage affects both conventional and professionals.

Far from singing the “guilt of Mea”, Lalig digital shield For legal companies for its fraudulent customers.

To show that this scandal will not change any reviews, Laliga announced today Blocking two other illegal emission platforms, Dazcfutbolios and RBTV77. According to the official press release, these services added more than 400,000 unique monthly users in Europe, using cloudflare resources to “hide their criminal activity with legitimate areas”.

Therefore, controversy is far from finishing; In fact, it has just started, and we are already talking about legal consequences for Laliga if it is shown that it abuses systems that already exist for the blockade of illegal services. In declarations A BandaanchaThe president of Laliga, Javier Tebas, assured that these blockages have the guarantee of A new judicial decision of December 2024; However, there is no evidence, or has not been made public, of such a resolution. If there are, this judicial decision would mean a tour with regard to past sentences, which limited blockages to illegal web addresses.